Card business of Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan complies with PCI DSS requirements
17.02.11 16:39
/KASE, February 17, 11/ - Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan (Almaty), whose
securities are officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has
provided KASE with the following press-release of February 15, 2011:
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Halyk Bank has become the first among Kazakhstan's banks to obtain a certificate
of compliance with PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). Thus,
Halyk Bank has confirmed that it meets the high level of security of card
processing environment, as well as procedures and regulations of information
security.
Halyk Bank issues payment cards of systems like VISA International, MasterCard
Worldwide, China UnionPay and remains the permanent leader on payment cards
market in Kazakhstan. PCI DSS is an international security standard set by
PCI SSC (Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council). This standard
has been created for institutions in the payment cards industry and serves for
prevention of fraud by improved control over storage, processing and
transmission of personal data of cardholders.
"Compliance with PCI DSS standard means that the bank ensures safety and
minimizes risk of fraud for holders of Halyk Bank cards, as well for clients
using wire transactions at trading enterprises with the Bank's terminals
involved", says Umit Shayakhmetova, Chairman of Halyk Savings Bank of
Kazakhstan.
Project aimed at harmonizing the Banks' infrastructure with PCI DSS requirements
and preparation for auditing included several stages: preliminary evaluation of
compliance with the standard, removal of discrepancies detected and fulfillment
of the standard's requirements, the final auditing of compliance with PCI DSS
requirements.
Since, according to the criteria set by Payment Card Industry Security Standards
Council, Halyk Bank is a major institution in the payment cards industry, the
procedure of evaluation of compliance with PCI DSS standard was conducted by
an independent QSA (Qualified Security Assessor).
Based on the evaluation's results, Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan received a
report on compliance with PCI DSS standard with regard to categories ATM
Processing, Authorization, Clearing & Settlement, POS Payment Processing,
Process Magnetic-Stripe Transactions and was entered into a register of payment
systems' participants meeting PCI DSS requirements.
Press-service
Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan
tel. +7 727 2 590 816, www.halykbank.kz
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[2011-02-17]